Meaning not yet researched.
Halley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #580 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #580 in 1986; #3,537 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Halley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,537 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #580.
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Halley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #580 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 333 (1986).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Halley, making it the 3,537th most common girls’ name of the year, down 806 places from #2,731 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 63 girls named Halley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #580, reached in 1986. That year also had the most girls given the name: 333. For comparison, it was #3,620 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Halley in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 23 babies. In all, 4,238 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,314 babies named Halley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 431 US girls were named Halley; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Hailey (181,710 babies since 1880), Haley (160,347 babies since 1880), Hayley (51,449 babies since 1880) and Hallie (41,711 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Halley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,961 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,044 | — | — |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,655 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,620 | — | — |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,741 | — | — |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 2004 | 113 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 2002 | 122 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 2001 | 146 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 2000 | 180 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1998 | 128 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1997 | 134 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1996 | 134 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1995 | 162 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1994 | 152 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1993 | 174 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1992 | 111 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1986 | 333 | #580 | 22 | #2,456 |
| 1985 | 146 | #1,033 | 10 | #4,166 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,356 | — | — |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,340 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,320 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,675 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,808 | — | — |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,482 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,581 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,713 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,920 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,837 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,158 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,010 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,543 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,179 | — | — |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,666 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,927 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,139 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,024 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,082 | — | — |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,514 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,886 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,512 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,946 | — | — |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,292 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,265 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,450 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,002 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,190 | — | — |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,355 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,668 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,911 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,228 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,562 | — | — |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,466 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,390 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,852 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,462 | 12 | #951 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).